The parameters 'runTarget' for goal org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run are missing or invalid - gwt

Question

I have created gwt maven project now I want to compile it and run it. To comiple I am providing gwt:compile as goal and to run gwt:run but it is giving me build failure with exception:
[INFO] [INFO] >>> gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run (default-cli) #
engilev2_with_maven >>> [INFO]
[INFO] ---
maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) #
engilev2_with_maven --- [debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using
'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 3
resources [INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) # engilev2_with_maven ---
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /root/18julyWorkspace/engilev2_with_maven/target/EngileNightly/WEB-INF/classes
[INFO] <<< gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run (default-cli) # engilev2_with_maven <<< [INFO]
[INFO] --- gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run (default-cli) # engilev2_with_maven ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.128s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Dec 27 12:01:34 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 18M/131M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The requested profile "default" could not be activated because it does not exist.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run (default-cli) on project
engilev2_with_maven: The parameters 'runTarget' for goal
org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:run are missing or invalid ->
[Help 1] [ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X
switch to enable full debug logging.
I don't understand what problem here
Pom.xml :::
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<!-- POM file generated with GWT webAppCreator -->
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>engilev2_with_maven</groupId>
<artifactId>engilev2_with_maven</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>GWT Maven Archetype</name>
<properties>
<!-- Convenience property to set the GWT version -->
<gwtVersion>2.4.0</gwtVersion>
<!-- GWT needs at least java 1.5 -->
<webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</webappDirectory>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-servlet</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId> <artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
<classifier>sources</classifier>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId> <artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>appops_shared</groupId>
<artifactId>appops_shared</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>appops_client</groupId>
<artifactId>appops_client</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>appops_server</groupId>
<artifactId>appops_server</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.21</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
<artifactId>lucene-core</artifactId>
<version>3.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>local.mvp4g</groupId>
<artifactId>mvp4g</artifactId>
<version>1.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.5.6-Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>aopalliance</groupId>
<artifactId>aopalliance</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>gin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
<artifactId>reflections</artifactId>
<version>0.9.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.gwtupload</groupId>
<artifactId>gwtupload</artifactId>
<version>0.6.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mailapi</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.gwtphonegap</groupId>
<artifactId>gwtphonegap</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-gwt-server</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-gwt-poll</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-gwt-common</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-compat-tomcat</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-compat-tomcat7</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-compat-jbossweb</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>guice</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.inject.extensions</groupId>
<artifactId>guice-assisted-inject</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.inject.extensions</groupId>
<artifactId>guice-servlet</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.oauth-client</groupId>
<artifactId>google-oauth-client</artifactId>
<version>1.11.0-beta</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.oauth-client</groupId>
<artifactId>google-oauth-client-servlet</artifactId>
<version>1.11.0-beta</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-runtime</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.atmosphere</groupId>
<artifactId>atmosphere-gwt-client</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
<artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
<version>1.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>gwt-oauth2</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-oauth2</artifactId>
<version>0.2</version>
<classifier>alpha</classifier>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>EngileNightly</finalName>
<outputDirectory>${webappDirectory}/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- <versionRange>[2.5.0,)</versionRange> -->
<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>i18n</goal>
<goal>generateAsync</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<modules>
<module>com.engile.Engile</module>
</modules>
</configuration>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<execute />
</action>
</pluginExecution>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<versionRange>[2.1.1,)</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>exploded</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<execute />
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

You need to configure <runTarget> tag under <plugin> tag for <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<!-- Plugin configuration. There are many available options, see gwt-maven-plugin
documentation at codehaus.org -->
<configuration>
<runTarget>index.html</runTarget>
<hostedWebapp>${webappDirectory}</hostedWebapp>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Check GWT Sample project sample for how to set up maven gwt projects http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/samples/
GWT and WorkingWithMaven - http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/WorkingWithMaven

Answer 2

You can do it with Mavem proprties:
mvn gwt:run -DrunTarget=Application.jsp